Exploring the AI Impact on the Digital Publishing Business — The digital revolution has shaken up the media world like never before over the past few decades. It significantly changed how we consume news, music, and video. The shift began with the dematerialization of print and other tangible media then continued with the unbundling of articles from newspapers, songs from…

An In-Depth Examination of 9 Threats and 9 Opportunities — The death of Google at the hands of ChatGPT may be a popular narrative, but the truth is far more nuanced. The destabilization of the Google’s Search empire has been brewing for years, and the emergence of language models represents just the latest development in a complex web of trends…

How a Conversational User Interface Could Create the Best Smartwatch Experience — When Apple revealed the first watch, there was great excitement surrounding its potential as a versatile mobile platform on the wrist. Developers eagerly flocked to create many apps and games, but the adoption was disappointing. The watch was not only slow, but people soon realized that shrinking a phone’s user…

A few years back, I wrote a piece called ‘When Network Effects Lose Their Armor’ exploring the situation when technological shifts could destroy the supposedly unbreakable network effects built by giant companies. The initial post covered the case of ride-sharing networks and how self-driving cars could render them irrelevant. …

The idea of the metaverse has been gaining momentum in recent years, becoming a catch-all buzzword used to describe different things in the digital landscape. What it means depends on who you ask. It could be VR social networks, online games with crypto assets, 3d communication spaces, or any virtual…

Imagine if you could have something similar to the genie from Aladdin. This powerful apparition could grant you any wish without limit. All you have to do is make a request, and he works his magic to make it come true. The latest AI generative models do feel like they…

If you’ve ever used a screen and felt strange symptoms with your vision getting tired, blurry, dry, or even painful, you’re not alone, and the reason why it is happening is still a mystery. I have been closely staring at screens for as long as I can remember. Aside from…

How AI Could Help Solve Our Social Media Addiction — It would take 468 years to listen to the entire music catalog on Spotify, 163,116 years to read every book on earth, and 95 years to watch all feature films ever made. On YouTube, every minute, 500 hours of video are uploaded. It would require 82 years to watch just…

In recent years, AI breakthroughs led to increasingly impressive outcomes such as partially self-driving cars, AlphaGo winning against Lee Sedol, the Go world champion, deep fakes, and generative systems, like DALL-E and GPT-3, that create astonishingly good visual and written content from a text prompt. …